To:HIS SISTER ANNA

Written:Written February 16 or 17, 1909Published:First published in 1930 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 1.

      Sent from Paris to Moscow.

      Printed from 
 the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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DearAnyuta,

Yesterdaywe sent you a telegram and got a reply
today.[2]Manyasha has been and still is eager to leave at once, but
I think she now agrees to wait for a letter. How is Mother
now? I read Mitya’s letter andI ask him to write to usregularly now; as a doctor he is better able to see, especially
after consultations with specialists, what course the disease
is taking andI ask him especiallyto inform usmore often,
even if only in a brief letter. Please farm out the proofs—
it is absolutely heartless to plant them on you at such a
time. You have the manuscript, so hire some student, etc.,
(or through the
“writer”[1],

etc.) as the last proof-reader,
give him my address and don’t waste your attention on
the correcting of proofs. You have enough to worry about
without that.... Give Mother many, many kisses. Everyone
sends very best regards.

Markdoes not want to go until his time is up; he says
times are such that he will not be allowed in the capital
in any case.

Allthe best,Yours,V. Ulyanov

[1]I.I. Skvortsov-Stepanov, who rendered substantial assistance
in gettingMaterialism and Empirio-criticismpublished.—Ed.

[2]Thetelegram has been lost. It inquired about the health of Lenin’s
mother, who was ill at the time.